Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 2 | The report also adds that in those cases , ‘ off-farm income averaged £12,500 in 1988 , rising to £13,500 in 1989 ’ . |
| 3 | All the professional photography we see on television is shot from camera tripods except for some newsreel material — and even hand-held news shots are almost as steady when the camcorder is being operated by an experienced cameraman . |
| 4 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 5 | But the Government accepts that for persistent offenders some kind of youth detention must also be available to the courts . |
| 6 | Laing accepts that to some extent he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth . |
| 7 | This approach accepts that in any merger there will be certain benefits and certain disadvantages ( ie costs ) and that some sort of assessment has to be made in order to consider the overall impact . |
| 8 | Thus , Ruangpanit concludes that in such regions , especially where it is necessary to ensure watershed protection so that downstream regions are not affected by flooding or excessive silting , crown cover should be maintained at c. 70 per cent with as little bare soil as possible . |
| 9 | It calculates that for every 100 hundred trees cut done only nine are planted , and concludes that in some countries fuelwood supplies will soon be exhausted unless massive replanting is undertaken . |
| 10 | Most damningly of all , Sir Anthony concludes that in 1985 the Department already knew that Barlow Clowes did not maintain proper records , that it had been trading without a licence and that investment watchdogs were worried about the group 's activities . |
| 11 | Lal concludes that in this region the best methods of clearance and cultivation to conserve soil are manual clearing followed by no-tillage planting . |
| 12 | It holds that across all cultures and forms of social arrangement women have been kept in subservience to men . |
| 13 | The first principle holds that in stable communication , it is conventional to regard the same word as having consistent meaning from one occasion of use to another . |
| 14 | They say a watched phone never rings and in this case they were right . |
| 15 | This seems accurate enough , although one wonders if with trans-national companies in oligopolistic control of major industrial and energy sectors , cartels are in any way necessary . |
| 16 | I was gon na say about she stoops to conquer she 's also doing what 's best because sh she like , knows what she wants and like that , erm and she 's trying to stop her father from getting him chucked out and stuff as well . |
| 17 | The report notes that SSDs are having to focus their care on clients with priority needs because of financial restrictions . |
| 18 | However , there were lingering fears yesterday that Nigel Lawson might yet be forced to raise rates even higher if another run on the pound develops because of poor trade figures . |
| 19 | All the trouble he has because of this . |
| 20 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |
| 21 | While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary ! |
| 22 | And if anybody thinks that with reasonable budgeting you could manage on sixty three twenty , I challenge you to do a little personal budgeting . |
| 23 | The ideas of morality are modes too , and Locke thinks that with proper application we could develop a systematic science of ethics similar to that of mathematics and geometry . |
| 24 | ‘ From the beginning , that court has acted upon no narrow view of the cases covered by its duty to quash a conviction when it thinks that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice … |
| 25 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 26 | ‘ If the legislature thinks that in this field the public interest overcomes some of the common law 's traditional consideration for the individual , then effect must be given to the statute which embodies this policy . |
| 27 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |
| 28 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 743 ) records that in 743 Aethelbald and Cuthred , king of the West Saxons , fought the Britons . |
| 29 | Sartre records that by 1920–21 , the personal predicament of Nizan 's father had become so desperate that he had taken to disappearing at frequent intervals from the family home at night , disappearances which Sartre interprets as " attempted suicides " . |
| 30 | The faculty appreciates that in certain circumstances a year between school and university , spent in employment or another worthwhile activity , may be advantageous . |